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Originally Posted by dmill89
If you want your files you will need to attach it as a slave to recover them.
Norton should protect you from viruses but it is known for false positives and slowing downsystems as well as causeing errors. Porsonally I would get rid of norton and use AVG avalible here: http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1 it is good and doesn't use too many system resources. best of all $40 gets you a 2 year licence instead of the usuall one year with norton.
There is also a free version of AVG avalible Here: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 but it does leave out a couple features.
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I did some checking on AVG, and while Norton is rated lower than most, Bitdefender and McAfee seem to get higher marks than AVG in the reviews I looked at. Any views on these products versus AVG? I have to admit I like the 5 PC/2 yr pricing option for AVG.
On my ongoing problem, when I attached the HDD as a slave and tried to copy the files, it rebooted my new machine. On restarting, XP ran chkdsk on the slave drive and repaired some indices on the NTFS before starting windows. I ran NAV on all volumes and it didnt find any viruses.
I was able to recover all files and save to my new PC.
When I put my the HDD back as master in my old Emachine, and booted with the XP install cd, it told me that I was in the middle of an install and asked did I want to continue. I figured why not, but it then got stock looking for some drv file later on and I had to restart again.
That's where I left it, but apart from firguring out the issues with reinstaling XP, it looks like I am on the road to recovery.
Rik and dmill, thanks so much for your help on this project. It's really appreciated.